CAPE COUPLE'S MARRIAGE PROPOSAL ON TV; DAVID ANDREWS POPPED THE QUESTION ON RADIO IN 1995

At the age of 10, David Andrews knew how he would propose to the love of his life.

The idea came when he saw the musical "My Fair Lady" and heard the song "I've Grown Accustomed to your Face" for the first time.

"I always said if I was ever going to sing a song to the woman of my dreams, that was the one it would be," David said.

So he did two years ago to his wife, Lana. But he didn't think it would be on live radio.

Now, the two will get to relive one of the happiest, yet unique, moments of their lives on national television.

Today at 11 a.m. on WSIL Channel 3, "REAL TV" will feature a tape recording of the April 1995, radio broadcast of "Jazzlive" where David, the radio host surrounded by the glow of a candlelight opera, presented his bride-to-be with a bouquet of red roses, serenaded her and proposed to her.

"I knew I was in trouble when I walked in and saw the candlelight opera," Lana said.

The ring on her hand and her 9-month-old baby on the way is proof she accepted.

"You couldn't say `no.' It was on live radio," said David, nudging his wife.

Even though they dated for two months, Lana knew David was the one for her. After all, they shared many interests like Barry Manilow, jazz and musicals.

"Growing up, my mother and I went to all the musicals. Every time 'Oklahoma' or 'My Fair Lady' was playing, we were there," she said. "So when David sang that song to me, for a split second I was Audrey Hepburn."

David got the idea to send in a tape of the proposal from his father, who watches "REAL TV," a program that features caught-on-tape scenes of drama, tension-filled moments and spontaneous twists to life.

In addition to the proposal, the program will show scenes from their two weddings. On July 1, 1995, they were married on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University where they first met and work together, he as director of video services and she as an alumni assistant. Later that year they had a formal wedding.

"You know how you have this conversation with your future wife, and she says, `Well, I want an indoor wedding,' and you say, `I want an outdoor wedding'?" David asked. "We just went ahead and had both."

And two weddings have brought David twice the happiness.

"I remember looking at her before we started going out and thinking she had everything I wanted," he said. "But our life together has been better than I ever thought possible.

David credits fate and timing with playing a part in the marriage.

"As a producer, my job is to look for things to go wrong before they go wrong," he said. "And everything with the proposal and this marriage just slipped in place."

Fate slipped into place the day after their first date. He asked Lana to go to a broadcasters conference in Las Vegas with him.

Unsure, she called her aunt and asked her to go. The following morning, the office where they worked received a fax from a local travel agency advertising four-night trips to Las Vegas for $149.

"What was unusual was that the four nights were the exact days of the conference. I bought the last two tickets available and the office had never received a fax like that before," Lana said.

"It's almost scary the way things happen," David said.